Leconfield’s Solar Farm

By Paul Homewood

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-synoptic-and-climate-stations

The Met Office has two weather stations in the Hull area – Leconfield and Hull East Park, Class 3 and 5 respectively. The nearest station to the north is Bridlington, about 30 miles away, and itself a Class 4 site. As we know, Hull East Park is the utterly inappropriate site at the Animal Education Centre.

Hull East has only been opened since 2011, and it appears that Leconfield only has continuous data since that year as well. (More on this later, but it is absolutely disgraceful that the Met Office don’t make all of their weather station data publicly and readily available – year of opening is just one piece of data not available.)

Leconfield is an ex RAF base about eight miles away. One reader has pointed out that Hull East tends to run about 0.5C hotter than Leconfield, but this gap seems to have noticeably shrunk in the last couple of years. This is probably because the weather station at Leconfield is now just meters away from a large solar farm, only built in 2021: